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>> no, romney's position has become ryan's. >> ryan's future positions are those of mitt romney? >> this is a ticket led by a presidential candidate. does obama want to be responsible for all the foolish policies joe biden has supported? ridiculous. >> so on the sensitive issue and the president and other democrats keep bringing it up, women's-related issues, abortion, for example, ryan opposes abortion in all cases including rape and incest. romney says is he supports abortion for rape and incest. romney's position, holds, right? >> you have a pro-life ticket running against a an abortion inclined in obama and biden. that's the issue. >> but mitt romney is the top of the ticket. so it's his position that he supports abortion rights for women in the case of rape and incest because so far, ryan has not? >> politically, wolf, it doesn't make any difference what i say here. the democrats are going to make it that way. >> john sununu, thanks very much for coming in. we'll continue this conversation. >> thank you. >> we'll take a quick break. lots more news coming up. stay with us. â™
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romney has 28% at his highest. ryan supported 25%. you know, this is seen, mary, potentially as a bonanza for rich people if the republicans are elected. what do you say about that? >> i say that that's a false description in that what obama is saying why he would tax the so-called upper brackets is to reduce the deficit or to pay for programs. we don't need to expand government anymore. that's part of the problem. all that would raise what obama's tax plan is $30 billion over 11 years, which is $3 billion a year. we spend $10 billion a day. so romney and ryan have a real plan. it will really reduce the deficit, restructure the debt. it's tax and regulatory reform. and it will get the economy going. >> but it's true, rich people at the highest brackets, mary -- then i'm going to bring donna in, they would go from what is now 35%, the president wants to raise it to 39.6%. but under romney's plan, let's forget about ryan for a moment, it goes down to 28%, meaning as far as income tax rates, there's going to be a bonanza for rich people.
romney has 28% at his highest. ryan supported 25%. you know, this is seen, mary, potentially as a bonanza for rich people if the republicans are elected. what do you say about that? >> i say that that's a false description in that what obama is saying why he would tax the so-called upper brackets is to reduce the deficit or to pay for programs. we don't need to expand government anymore. that's part of the problem. all that would raise what obama's tax plan is $30 billion over 11 years,...
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what can romney learn or not learn from paul ryan? we focused so much on the president's awful performance, what does mitt romney need to change if anything? >> i think most of what romney needs to change just has to do with the format, right? you're going to be in a situation where both obama and romney are trying to sort of connect and sell themselves both to the audience at home but also to the people they're talking to in the room. and that's a completely different situation from the first debate. so romney i think overall most people would say, you know, romney overall had a better debate than ryan did. i thought ryan was fine. >> those who were watching. >> cleared the bar and so on. i don't think romney looks at the ryan performance and says i need to model myself after that. i think ryan was very clearly just trying to sort of establish, you know, sort of keep the momentum going. deliver a sort of solid calibrated performance and not give the democrats some big sound bite that they could latch onto. >> in fact, he did give the
what can romney learn or not learn from paul ryan? we focused so much on the president's awful performance, what does mitt romney need to change if anything? >> i think most of what romney needs to change just has to do with the format, right? you're going to be in a situation where both obama and romney are trying to sort of connect and sell themselves both to the audience at home but also to the people they're talking to in the room. and that's a completely different situation from the...
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it is romney-ryan on the republican ticket. paul ryan is 43 years old and considered the party's go-to guy on budget and fiscal issues. the white house has welcomed ryan to the race. we'll find out if president obama's re-election team is worried or energized. looking ahead to the debate and election day. >>> the so-called green on blue attacks in afghanistan may be escalating. an afghan believed to be a police officer opened fire and killed three u.s. marines in the helmand province on friday. it was the second attack on nato troops in less than 24 hours. friday, three american soldiers were killed by a man in an afghan military uniform. >>> rescue teams are combing through the rubble, searching for signs of life after two earthquakes jolted northwest iran. at least 180 people were killed and more than 1300 injured when the quakes shook the province. four villages were reportedly leveled. 60 others severely damaged. [ speaking foreign language ] clinton says the u.s. will develop a contingency plan with turkey for syria as reb
it is romney-ryan on the republican ticket. paul ryan is 43 years old and considered the party's go-to guy on budget and fiscal issues. the white house has welcomed ryan to the race. we'll find out if president obama's re-election team is worried or energized. looking ahead to the debate and election day. >>> the so-called green on blue attacks in afghanistan may be escalating. an afghan believed to be a police officer opened fire and killed three u.s. marines in the helmand province...
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the idea in general is to tie governor mitt romney -- sorry, tie governor romney to the ryan budget. and as one top democrat put it to me, the idea is to make the case that romney/ryan in electing that ticket means americans would be electing the intellectual leader of the house republicans, as one person put it, that paul ryan is the intellectual leader of the house republicans and he should not be able tonight to duck from any specifics. so, again, we will hear that word, specifics. and look for the vice president to try to get paul ryan to talk about budget details in this debate tonight, wolf. >> jessica, has the vice president done his tour of the actual debate hall yet? >> reporter: he has. he did that tour a little earlier today before 2:00 p.m. he sat in the chair. he looked at the monitor where you get your time cues. and i'm told all that went smoothly. he also before he boarded the plane today leaving from delaware he talked to reporters and he was asked what is his strategy. take a listen to what he said. >> i'm looking forward to it. nice of you guys to be here. are you
the idea in general is to tie governor mitt romney -- sorry, tie governor romney to the ryan budget. and as one top democrat put it to me, the idea is to make the case that romney/ryan in electing that ticket means americans would be electing the intellectual leader of the house republicans, as one person put it, that paul ryan is the intellectual leader of the house republicans and he should not be able tonight to duck from any specifics. so, again, we will hear that word, specifics. and look...
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romney and his running mate congressman paul ryan. jim acosta has the latest for us out in nevada. >> mitt romney arrived here knows it's always a safe bet to do a document dump on a friday. his camign releasedis2011, s health anden >> reporter: mitt romney came to las vegad rolle dice releasinnew tax information in the hopes of putting alinger campaign issue to rest. according to his return, he paid nearly $2 million in taxes on almost $4 in income. romney had to make adjustments to get to that figure. according to that 2011 return, he donated $2 million to charity, but only claimed a reduction of $2.25 million. he paid more in taxes to conform to the estimate that he paid a 13% rate. that's despite what he said when he was asked if he paid anything less than 13%. >> if i had paid more than are legally due, i don't think i would be qualified to become president. >> the campaign posted this letter from the tax preperrer stating that the candidate had paid federal and state income taxes for more than 20 years. that appeared to be a dir
romney and his running mate congressman paul ryan. jim acosta has the latest for us out in nevada. >> mitt romney arrived here knows it's always a safe bet to do a document dump on a friday. his camign releasedis2011, s health anden >> reporter: mitt romney came to las vegad rolle dice releasinnew tax information in the hopes of putting alinger campaign issue to rest. according to his return, he paid nearly $2 million in taxes on almost $4 in income. romney had to make adjustments...
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poll after poll shows momentum building behind the romney/ryan tukt and there's pressure on the president now to wrap up his game for the three-week sprint to election day. let's bring in our correspondent, we're getting reaction to the vice presidential debate, more comments coming in. but the president has his mission cut out for him right now. dan? >> he really does. we just have to look back to right after the debate where the president turned up his volume, strongly aggressively going after his gop opponents. but what we saw this week at the university of miami on thursday at a big rally there was the president even turning up the volume a bit more. attacking mitt romney for what the president says was his changing position on a whole host of issues, including taxes. take a listen. >> he's trying to go through an extreme makeover. after running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, mitt romney is trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. >> i was talking to a senior campaign official about the tone of the president's rally and this official
poll after poll shows momentum building behind the romney/ryan tukt and there's pressure on the president now to wrap up his game for the three-week sprint to election day. let's bring in our correspondent, we're getting reaction to the vice presidential debate, more comments coming in. but the president has his mission cut out for him right now. dan? >> he really does. we just have to look back to right after the debate where the president turned up his volume, strongly aggressively...
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ryan and romney certainly work well together. i saw them campaign as a team in the primaries, just a bit, and romney clearly appears to get some pep in his step when he's with ryan. so there's some elevated energy there, for one thing. and the tandem of romney and ryan has also been drawing large crowds, conservatives certainly like ryan a lot, and the romney campaign is going to the try to capitalize on that. but, john, as you know, it's a gamble for the romney campaign, because, obviously, the two of them can cover more ground in those all-important battleground states, if they're campaigning separately, rather than together. >> and so you see this whenever this pick is made. you want them to campaign together, you want people to get the optics, they're a good time, looks like they work well together. you're dead right about ryan energizes crowds in wisconsin and in iowa this week. but how do they deal with that delicate balance? because in the end, americans pick presidents. it's governor romney that has to step back front and
ryan and romney certainly work well together. i saw them campaign as a team in the primaries, just a bit, and romney clearly appears to get some pep in his step when he's with ryan. so there's some elevated energy there, for one thing. and the tandem of romney and ryan has also been drawing large crowds, conservatives certainly like ryan a lot, and the romney campaign is going to the try to capitalize on that. but, john, as you know, it's a gamble for the romney campaign, because, obviously,...
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and if you look at the ryan budget and the ryan/romney plan, this is an uncompromising plan. i mean, this has become the tea party manifesto in the house of representatives. and it's not because it's a document that has compromise, it's because it's a hard-edged right-wing approach to the economy. >> the story today, of course, has been romney's tax returns and he hasn't -- >> paul ryan's tax returns. >> now i'm talking about romney's tax returns. we don't want to get confused. >> lots of them. >> ryan's tax returns came out early, but the big issue has been whether romney would release more of his tax returns. and as you know, the -- the administration has put a lot of pressure on for him to put some more out. the campaign of romney put this out. we have a little graphic. it's clear the president wants nothing more than to talk about governor romney's tax returns instead of the issues that matter to voters like putting americans back to work, fixing the economy, and reining in spending. so do you think this issue of romney's tax returns whether he should release more, is tha
and if you look at the ryan budget and the ryan/romney plan, this is an uncompromising plan. i mean, this has become the tea party manifesto in the house of representatives. and it's not because it's a document that has compromise, it's because it's a hard-edged right-wing approach to the economy. >> the story today, of course, has been romney's tax returns and he hasn't -- >> paul ryan's tax returns. >> now i'm talking about romney's tax returns. we don't want to get...
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we know this, the difference isn't between ryan and romney. the difference is between romne romney,/ryan and obama/biden. we can create the 12 million jobs through the various policies that mitt romney has detailed in our further detailed on his website. that's the difference. >> maria, i want you to give me your quick reaction to what joe biden said yesterday. i'll play a clip of rudy giuliani responding. listen to this. >> look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. romney wants to let -- he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. unchain wall street. going to put y'all back in chains. >> i've never seen a vice president that has made as many mistakes, said as many stupid things. i mean, there's a real fear god forbid he ever had to be entrusted with the presidency whether he really has the mental capacity to handle it. this guy just isn't bright. he's never been bright. he isn't bright. and people think, well, he just talks a little too much. actually,
we know this, the difference isn't between ryan and romney. the difference is between romne romney,/ryan and obama/biden. we can create the 12 million jobs through the various policies that mitt romney has detailed in our further detailed on his website. that's the difference. >> maria, i want you to give me your quick reaction to what joe biden said yesterday. i'll play a clip of rudy giuliani responding. listen to this. >> look at what they value and look at their budget and what...
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jim acosta on the road with romney and ryan. meanwhile, president obama isn't missing his chance to pounce, using a surprise appearance in the briefing room not only to slam his comments but launch a fresh round of attacks against the arch rival, mitt romney. let's go to our white house correspondent brianna keilar. >> president obama is trying to make this abortion debate relevant. no doubt he's targeting the female vote. he's doing much better with women than mitt romney is. but he has lost grown with them, especially in the key states. and this issue could help him shore up the female vote. >> rape is rape. and the idea we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about doesn't make since to the american people. and certainly doesn't make sense to me. >> and with that president obama effectively elevated the comments of a little known missouri congressman todd akin and used it to cast the republican party as trying to butt into women's personal health decisions. >> although these particular
jim acosta on the road with romney and ryan. meanwhile, president obama isn't missing his chance to pounce, using a surprise appearance in the briefing room not only to slam his comments but launch a fresh round of attacks against the arch rival, mitt romney. let's go to our white house correspondent brianna keilar. >> president obama is trying to make this abortion debate relevant. no doubt he's targeting the female vote. he's doing much better with women than mitt romney is. but he has...
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he covers romney and ryan on a day-to-day basis. i guess maybe he was a little bit lowering expectations, although the pressure is certainly going to be on paul ryan in that thursday night debate against joe biden, jim. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i think you heard mitt romney say just before that clip that joe biden has been in a whole number of debates. in excess of, i think, a dozen. i think he's had 15 to 18 debates over the years, and then went ton to say paul ryan, that may be his first debate. i'm not sure. we would have to go back and check, but i would be amazed if paul ryan had not done any debates during his congressional years over there in congress. and just to pick up on what you're talking about just before the break a few minutes ago, about those loopholes and deductions, wolf. i can tell you that i think that your interview there made some news on that front, because what we've heard mitt romney say that he would help, that he would pay for those tax cuts in part through what he called a, quote, additional
he covers romney and ryan on a day-to-day basis. i guess maybe he was a little bit lowering expectations, although the pressure is certainly going to be on paul ryan in that thursday night debate against joe biden, jim. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and i think you heard mitt romney say just before that clip that joe biden has been in a whole number of debates. in excess of, i think, a dozen. i think he's had 15 to 18 debates over the years, and then went ton to say paul ryan, that may...
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i think romney and ryan are going too much partisanship. i think the one who wins the independent is a candidate. i'm really going to work with people and i've done it as vp, president and senator. >> i so hope we get to see biden, tomorrow. joe, if you're listening, be yourself. give us some jokes. give us some off color. >> i don't think he can. >> give us some gaffes. >> people like joe biden. >> they do. >> america likes joe biden. >> i like joe biden. >> by the way, joe six-pack white dudes who watch football like joe biden. >> even my dad likes joe biden. we're out of time. thanks so much. another brilliant conversation. i want to thank wolf blitzer for letting us hang out in his "the situation room." now back to wolf. >> excellent unsolicited advice pete and company. thanks very much. >>> the republican vice presidential hopeful paul ryan sat down exclusively with cnn. up next, how his hunting routine might help him in tomorrow night's debate. and new allegations about lance armstrong's links to doping. c-max has a nice little trait,
i think romney and ryan are going too much partisanship. i think the one who wins the independent is a candidate. i'm really going to work with people and i've done it as vp, president and senator. >> i so hope we get to see biden, tomorrow. joe, if you're listening, be yourself. give us some jokes. give us some off color. >> i don't think he can. >> give us some gaffes. >> people like joe biden. >> they do. >> america likes joe biden. >> i like joe...
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the romney/ryan budget adds $5 billion in tax breaks skewed to the wealthiest americans. president obama thinks we need to make sure to ask everybody to pay the fair share. pay more if you're fortunate so everybody in america can have the chance to be successful. >> african-americans are very supportive of the president of the united states. >> and right now mitt romney is polling at 0%. >> in one wall street journal poll. but that's a small number. >> never seen it at sooe roar. >> unemployment was 9.7% back in 2008. it's now 14.1%. very enthusiastic in 2008 for the president. he cried the night he was elected. now they're saying they're not going to vote for romney, but they're disappointed in the president. they'll probably vote for the president, but they might not vote at all. the enthusiasm problem is a serious problem. >> i couldn't disagree more. i haven't seen anything like the lack of enthusiasm that you're describing. i've spoken to thousands of african-americans who are excited and enthusiastic. president obama has made sure that we invest in things like educa
the romney/ryan budget adds $5 billion in tax breaks skewed to the wealthiest americans. president obama thinks we need to make sure to ask everybody to pay the fair share. pay more if you're fortunate so everybody in america can have the chance to be successful. >> african-americans are very supportive of the president of the united states. >> and right now mitt romney is polling at 0%. >> in one wall street journal poll. but that's a small number. >> never seen it at...
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and the romney/ryan five-pnt plan, he has outlined that. he specifically wants to look at energy, trade, skills. he wants to look at deficit reduction. and he wants to repeal and replace obama care and do away with the burdensome regulations in this country. those are specifics. >> hold on, guys. we have to wrap it up. we're out of time. the only point i want tomake, alice, those are goals, those five specific points. as fars specifics how he's going to cut, for example, tax reform. he wants t c ta rates, but he doesn't say wch loopholes, which deductio, ate wants to do to balance some of thos tax those are the specifics peol e g for. th's the criticism. but this conversation will continue down the road. alice stewart, mo elleithee, thanks for coming in. >>> stunning new pictures from mars. what the curiosity rover has been up to. and clint eastwood breaks his silence on the rather bizarre speech he gave at the republican national convention. he's now revealing how he actually came up with that idea. i'm so a survivor of ovarian , a writd u
and the romney/ryan five-pnt plan, he has outlined that. he specifically wants to look at energy, trade, skills. he wants to look at deficit reduction. and he wants to repeal and replace obama care and do away with the burdensome regulations in this country. those are specifics. >> hold on, guys. we have to wrap it up. we're out of time. the only point i want tomake, alice, those are goals, those five specific points. as fars specifics how he's going to cut, for example, tax reform. he...
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>> well, that's the ryan/romney position. the platform is carrying the language that it has had for the last four or five campaigns. i think there's value to consistency. it is a human life amendment support. i think that's the way to go. >> john sununu who supports governor romney and paul ryan, for that matter. once again, thanks so much. i'll see you down in tampa. i'll beoming down over the weekend. >> yep. >> thanks very much. >> we'll be here. >> good. we'll talk next week as well. >>> under cover video sparking a government investigation. that's coming up in our next hour. what the agriculture department says about the treatment of cattle by a major fast food chain supplier. >>> and the first lady michelle obama, she's speaking right now in florida. we're going to bring you some of that live. stand by. [ annie ] this is the story of a girl named annie who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ a
>> well, that's the ryan/romney position. the platform is carrying the language that it has had for the last four or five campaigns. i think there's value to consistency. it is a human life amendment support. i think that's the way to go. >> john sununu who supports governor romney and paul ryan, for that matter. once again, thanks so much. i'll see you down in tampa. i'll beoming down over the weekend. >> yep. >> thanks very much. >> we'll be here. >> good....
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and that's mitt romney's problem. >> you've been doing some reporting x ryan, on nevada right now. unemployment has gone down slightly but it's still above the national average. what do you see there? >> i went there to try to figure out why in a state with 12% unemployment has obama led every poll this year. it's just a demographic story there. the democrats say the adult latino citizen population has grown 39% since 2008 and they've worked for the last four years to really register those voters and get them to turn out for the democrats. so that it could be a firewall if romney runs the table with florida, north carolina, virginia, colorado and new hampshire, then obama has to hold wisconsin and ohio and win either nevada or iowa. so that to me looks like the sort of division right now. those first states i mentioned, those are the states where romney has really done well since the first debate. so you could see nevada as a firewall if obama keeps his lead in wisconsin and ohio. >> thanks very much. don't forget, 7:00 p.m. eastern monday night, our coverage begins, the third and
and that's mitt romney's problem. >> you've been doing some reporting x ryan, on nevada right now. unemployment has gone down slightly but it's still above the national average. what do you see there? >> i went there to try to figure out why in a state with 12% unemployment has obama led every poll this year. it's just a demographic story there. the democrats say the adult latino citizen population has grown 39% since 2008 and they've worked for the last four years to really...
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mitt romney is trying to and paul ryan doing this, trying to hide their positions. they want to go on national tv and debates with big audiences and pretend they haven't taken these stances but i think the american people need to understand, you know, there is a man behind the curtain and we do need to pay attention to that person because that's mitt romney. that's the real mitt romney. that's the mitt romney that's proposed all of these things. and people need to understand what it means for their lives for middle class families, the taxes go up. for people like mitt romney, their taxes go down. it's a theory that's not going to create jobs in the country. >> robert, thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. >> robert begins from the obama campaign. kate baldwin is here, as well. we got a very different perspective than the last hour. >> i was just going to say that. i think we are getting -- at least seeing some of the lines of attack to see tomorrow night, something. >> setting the stage for the debate. >> that's absolutely right. just to remind our viewer
mitt romney is trying to and paul ryan doing this, trying to hide their positions. they want to go on national tv and debates with big audiences and pretend they haven't taken these stances but i think the american people need to understand, you know, there is a man behind the curtain and we do need to pay attention to that person because that's mitt romney. that's the real mitt romney. that's the mitt romney that's proposed all of these things. and people need to understand what it means for...
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this is paul ryan who on fox news on sunday couldn't explain the romney/ryan tax plan. not because it's complicated, because the math don't add up. and for the middle class it hurts the middle class. it digs the middle class into the dead years of 2000 to 2010. >> how problemmatic? >> the republicans have nothing but gaffes. they love when joe biden speaks because for some reason they like to take those comments and blow them out of proportion flt i just think it's nonsense. if they want to talk about joe biden and who will help the middle class, that's an argument i think the democrats would like to have. >> there will be a lot of discussion of joe biden's remarks right now. >> donna's right. we like to talk about joe biden because he gives us a lot to talk about. in a few weeks we'd miss joe biden, the gift that keeps on giving. only in washington is a truth called a gaffe when it's not politically convenient. what he said right now is the truth. it is harmful. it is harmful because it is the truth. because it's going to ring true with the middle class. and because it
this is paul ryan who on fox news on sunday couldn't explain the romney/ryan tax plan. not because it's complicated, because the math don't add up. and for the middle class it hurts the middle class. it digs the middle class into the dead years of 2000 to 2010. >> how problemmatic? >> the republicans have nothing but gaffes. they love when joe biden speaks because for some reason they like to take those comments and blow them out of proportion flt i just think it's nonsense. if they...
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why all the talk about paul ryan these days as a possible vp for mitt romney? we're going to show you a chart that shows huge interest and tell you why it's not going to happen. later, a developing story in louisiana where the earth is devouring trees ten stories tall and sending residents running for solid ground. let's go "outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> "outfront" tonight, american loophole. today, we got this e-mail. i printed it out, from the u.s. state department. it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. now, at first we thought, hey, this is proof of how tough sanctions really are. they're going after everybody. after all, here's the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. >> this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. >> the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranian economy. >> the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. >> but when we took a second loo
why all the talk about paul ryan these days as a possible vp for mitt romney? we're going to show you a chart that shows huge interest and tell you why it's not going to happen. later, a developing story in louisiana where the earth is devouring trees ten stories tall and sending residents running for solid ground. let's go "outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> "outfront" tonight, american loophole. today, we got this e-mail. i printed it out, from...
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is there any concern inside the romney campaign that paul ryan potentially could overshadow mitt romney? >> reporter: the last thing that they want, wolf, is a situation where they have fire and ice, paul ryan being the fire and mitt romney being the ice. just to get back to what candy was saying we'll see the totality of mitt romney's life laid out on the stage. you're going to see members of mitt romney's church in boston, the mormon church in boston come out ask talk about how he helped them in personal crises and that's not an area that this campaign has been eager to go to and they brushed off reporters in the past who wanted to talk about this subject. they will talk about his faith and i've had the chance to stand next to the romney and the davis family, ann romney's family who came from all over the country and the two things they want to get out tonight are family and faith in addition for his vision for the future and that is something that stu stephen, a senior romney adviser told me. you will hear about mitt romney's vision for the future in ways that he has not explained be
is there any concern inside the romney campaign that paul ryan potentially could overshadow mitt romney? >> reporter: the last thing that they want, wolf, is a situation where they have fire and ice, paul ryan being the fire and mitt romney being the ice. just to get back to what candy was saying we'll see the totality of mitt romney's life laid out on the stage. you're going to see members of mitt romney's church in boston, the mormon church in boston come out ask talk about how he...
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i wouldn't pick paul ryan because mitt romney doesn't want this campaign about entitlement reform and paul ryan would make this campaign about that instead of jobs and growth. paul ryan should run for president on his own. he doesn't need to be anybody else's vp. >> his plan would change medicare for people under 55 right now. i'm not sure that mitt romney necessarily wants to be burdened with that. >> you don't want to start your campaign fall sprint on defense talking about something that isn't the main issue in the country which is jobs and growth. >> james, what shoul the role of donald trump be at the republican convention? >> oh, major. major. i think they should devote a whole night to it. >> being generous here. >> i'm going to go ahead and do something i've never done. i'm going to speak from one of my fellow contributors. i want donald trump at that convention. alex does not want donald trump anywhere near that convention hall. >> let's ask him. >> donald trump making occasional fun of donald trump because he's a colorful figure. but i think the obama campaign misunderstandi
i wouldn't pick paul ryan because mitt romney doesn't want this campaign about entitlement reform and paul ryan would make this campaign about that instead of jobs and growth. paul ryan should run for president on his own. he doesn't need to be anybody else's vp. >> his plan would change medicare for people under 55 right now. i'm not sure that mitt romney necessarily wants to be burdened with that. >> you don't want to start your campaign fall sprint on defense talking about...
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48% obama/biden, 47% romney/ryan. going into the dramatic back-to-back conventions, a dead heat in this race. you talk to anybody in the campaigns, they say both candidates have to be as good as can be during conventions. the debates i think will settle the race. >> we also have more numbers on abortion rights in the aftermath of the comments of todd akin. share with our viewers what we're learning in terms of shifts on abortion. >> it's fascinating. you have akin and the rape controversy, the abortion controversy and you have the republican platform which says it calls for outlawing all abortions, even in the cases of rape, incest and life of the mother. even a lot of republicans don't go that far. if you look at the poll numbers, 35% of our likely voters say it should be legal in all circumstances, 9% say most circumstances, 37% say a few circumstances. only 15% say no circumstances. the republican platform is out of touch, out of step with the american people. but look at this, do people think governor romney is go
48% obama/biden, 47% romney/ryan. going into the dramatic back-to-back conventions, a dead heat in this race. you talk to anybody in the campaigns, they say both candidates have to be as good as can be during conventions. the debates i think will settle the race. >> we also have more numbers on abortion rights in the aftermath of the comments of todd akin. share with our viewers what we're learning in terms of shifts on abortion. >> it's fascinating. you have akin and the rape...
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an expansion of medicaid is sort of the plan, wolf. >> what are the romney and ryan plans for medicaid as far as they're concerned? >> i think the best way to characterize it is they want to treat medicaid more like block grants. so the federal government would give money and the states would really retain all the control of what exactly to do with that money. they also over time and as you know, wolf, sometimes the math is hard to predict or project, but over ten years they want to take out about $800 billion out of that federal money that's going to the states. and that's part of how the romney/ryan plan is cutting costs, they say. >> so seniors who are recipients of medicaid, sanjay, how will they be impacted? >> you know, wolf, i see this as a physician quite a bit. you imagine the senior person over 65 who's also poor and now needs nursing home care or needs long-term care. not somebody who's been in a hospital for a long time, but somebody who now needs nursing home care. those are the people probably going to be the most impacted because a lot of people pay attention to this. bu
an expansion of medicaid is sort of the plan, wolf. >> what are the romney and ryan plans for medicaid as far as they're concerned? >> i think the best way to characterize it is they want to treat medicaid more like block grants. so the federal government would give money and the states would really retain all the control of what exactly to do with that money. they also over time and as you know, wolf, sometimes the math is hard to predict or project, but over ten years they want to...
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. >> what's interesting is, yes, you have sort of the official romney/ryan line that mitt romney can't form a complete sentence and bark obama is cicero and it's going to be very hard. but what christie said is what you're hearing from people behind the scenes. there was a piece with a lot of anonymous quotes from romney aides saying, we need a game changer. i think the good news for romney is if you look back to those primary debates that you were talking about, he did the best in the debates where it seemed like he absolutely had to win. so the south carolina debate, seemed like he was on cruise control, sort of playing a prevent defense against newt gingrich. but then once gingrich won south carolina, he turned it on. the next couple of debates, everybody talked about gingrich master debater and romney won. he does have some debating skills. >> he's good under pressure. and the good part is, he's under pressure. >> here's the historical problem with that, there's very little correlation between debate performance and changing the dynamic of a race. you have to search wide and far to
. >> what's interesting is, yes, you have sort of the official romney/ryan line that mitt romney can't form a complete sentence and bark obama is cicero and it's going to be very hard. but what christie said is what you're hearing from people behind the scenes. there was a piece with a lot of anonymous quotes from romney aides saying, we need a game changer. i think the good news for romney is if you look back to those primary debates that you were talking about, he did the best in the...
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romney-ryan aren't even fiscally responsible in their plans. all they want to do is to go back to the bush policies. >> let me interrupt. >> the debt just went up astro nommicly under this president. he's moving in the wrong direction. >> thank you both, ted strickland, ken blackwell, appreciate the discussion. thank you. >>> the world is focusing on iran's nuclear program, thanks in part to israel's attention to the issue. but what about israel's nukes? we investigate next. one is for a clean, wedomestic energy future that puts us in control. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future, now. and the candidate's speech is in pieces all over the district. the writer's desktop and the coordinator's phone are working on a joke with local color.
romney-ryan aren't even fiscally responsible in their plans. all they want to do is to go back to the bush policies. >> let me interrupt. >> the debt just went up astro nommicly under this president. he's moving in the wrong direction. >> thank you both, ted strickland, ken blackwell, appreciate the discussion. thank you. >>> the world is focusing on iran's nuclear program, thanks in part to israel's attention to the issue. but what about israel's nukes? we...
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